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Can’t install ia32-libs and ia32-libs-multiarch: how to fix it

When tried to install teamviewer on my Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, the system complaining about unmet dependencies and can not install ia32-libs, but when I tried to install ia32-libs, here’s what I got:

rumy@cbug-nest:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Hi, thanks a million because I have been able to fix mi problem with ia32-libs and install Skype… But now I have an undesired consequence with grub-efi-amd64. I have discribed it here: http://askubuntu.com/a/284973/151586

I am not sure, because I didn’t have that kind of error when I solved this problem, it could be (U)EFI related (I didn’t have EFI BIOS on the machine I fixed), or just dependency problem.
Did you alredy tried to fix the dependency problem? like ‘dpkg –configure -a’ ?

And this error: line 684: grub-install: command not found
Did you have grub-install on your system? what ‘whereis grub-install’ give you?

It is very weird, I just cannot do anything… the only thing I come up is to remove the package but I’m afraid it will crap my booting system. I presume Grub is installed as I boot my computer with Grub. By the way, this is what I get after running ‘whereis grub-install’: